Gender studies

Director: Heli Valtonen

Network of gender studies brings together historians and ethnologists who are interested in gender as historical, cultural, social and political phenomenon. Current research topics include patriarchal power, marriage as institution, feminism, masculinity and women’s status in different historical periods. We employ various methods and approaches from both disciplinary fields including e.g. oral history, biography, ethnographic fieldwork, and quantitative and qualitative analysis of data.

Research Projects:

How the political became personal: Feminism in practice in Finland, Suomen Akatemian tutkijatohtorin tehtävä 2015–2018 johtaja: FT Arja Turunen

Pirjo Markkola 2015. Deaconesses in the history of nursing in Finland, 1890s to 1960s. In Deaconesses in Nursing Care – International Transfer of a Female Model of Life and Work in the 19th and 20th Century. Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Eds. Susanne Kreutzer & Karen Nolte. Stuttgart: Robert Bosch Foundation.

Kirsi-Maria Hytönen, 2014. "Ei elämääni lomia mahtunut". Naisten muistelukerrontaa palkkatyöstä talvi- ja jatkosotien ja jälleenrakennuksen aikana. Joensuu: Suomen kansantietouden tutkijain seura. English summary: ”There was no time for holidays in my life”. Women’s memories of paid work during the Second World War and in the years of rebuilding in Finland.